Trying out Twitter

Rather than set up some kind of "tumblelog" I thought I'd give Twitter another shot.

If I remember correctly, Twitter came out a couple of years ago, when I was working for Scott Ruthfield at Amazon.com (or at least launched a public beta). I wasn't enthused at the time, but I also hung out on AIM and chatted all the time. Now that I'm more, I suppose, professional, perhaps I will get some functionality out of a site that allows frequent chat-like communication without the distractional burden of being on IM.

I haven't frequented IM in a while; somewhere around the middle or late years of college I realized that it's more of a net negative than positive for getting things done. That's not always my focus, of course (if it were I would have a pretty bleak life!), but having IM open is an invitation for distraction and just a way to make excuses to myself to procrastinate what I would otherwise be doing.

Mingling work and chat seems like a less efficient way to work and a less fun way to chat. Twitter is like IM but cheating; I can send you IMs but you can't directly send them back (I would have to check some page to see them ;-)

Anyway, check out my Twitter page!